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refusal to compete has made Lunix (which is a fitting title as its run by loonies) so low on every metric other than servers

Linux is probably the most installed and most widely used operating system in the world. It's in servers, routers, smart TVs, mobile phones, tablets, etc. It's massively successful.

name any major sites OTHER than Google that supports WebM?

Okay, I've disabled H.264 support in Firefox 38 beta. Let's try some sites and see what works!

Microsoft's Channel 9 supports WebM and works.

Yahoo Screen supports WebM and works.

Yahoo Music supports WebM and works.

Revision 3 supports WebM and works.

Wikipedia supports WebM and works.

Name any hardware OEMs supporting WebM acceleration?

Well, here's a list. It features names like Intel, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Rockchip, Nvidia, Samsung and so on.

No one uses WebM.

YouTube does. Wikipedia does. Wired Video does. Microsoft's Channel 9 does. Revision3 does. Et cetera and so on.

TwiT has its own full studio now too. I generally prefer it to Revision3 (less all over the map and more consistent in their weekly programming). But the two are closely aligned, so to each his own. I do love me some Techzilla.

All the good tech shows are online-only now

True, perhaps, but is that a problem? For instance, I've been very impressed with the programming from Revision3 - an online-only "TV" studio whose lineup is heavily aligned with the /. crowd. They even have their own "channel" on Roku devices.

I think I can top that...

Pre-order your Galaxy Newton (ten years ago) today!

Unlikely that anyone will see this comment, but this video shows the difference between 24 ftps and 48 fps (starting 6:05)

http://revision3.com/filmriot/red-epic/24fps-vs-48fps

I generally just watch "let's plays" on YouTube, however there's a lot of decent stuff at http://vodo.net/ (Pioneer One, Zenith, various documentaries, etc.). Another good place for free shows is http://revision3.com/ - my particular favorites are Scam School, The Ben Heck Show and Hak5.

As for games, try Urban Terror, Xonotic (not a huge number of online players though) and fs2_open (updated Freespace 2 engine, needs FS2 files though which are available legally if you know where to find them).

He's using an argument that I first heard from Penn Jillette. It goes like this: a Theist believes in God. It is this faith that defines his status. An atheist does not believe in God. The state is defined by the absence of faith. If you do not have faith in the existence of God, you are an atheist. (there are believers and non-believers, there is no middle ground).

Now, you may be a fully convicted atheist who is completely confident in his non-faith, or someone who is not sure either way (an agnostic in your vernacular). But either way, the label "atheist" applies, all agnostics are among the group of non-believers.

That's his argument. I don't really care either way..... I'm an agnostic on the agnostic issue.....

link disappeared... http://revision3.com/unboxingporn

While I can't be 100% sure due to the slashdotting, this is probably just two clips taken from from two different episodes (11 for the CDX, and 21, the most recent, for the 360 disc changer) of The Ben Heck Show.

"Producing content is an expensive and painful business. " No it is not.

http://twit.tv/

http://www.pioneerone.tv/

http://revision3.com/

http://www.theonion.com/ - they make a broadcast "news" show for almost nothing.

Also The daily show and colbert report were dirt cheap before both of them got greedy as hell. John Steward started that show making a GOOD wage but now hew is making an obscene wage.

The costs per episode tv show is complete bullshit and they know it. High quality TV can be made a LOT cheaper and is starting to surface. SciFi channel CLAIMED they were going to do that but they became retarded and only used SAG actors and that instantly drove the price through the roof. Sorry but Charlie Sheen is not worth 1/20th of what he got paid for that really low budget TV show that ended up having expenses that were on par with a TV show like Eureka that has real talent and the cost of prop building and EFX every episode. And the costs for EFX are coming down fast... IF I can make a convincing meteorite hit on my $350.00 computer using a $800.00 program... It's game over. http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/meteor_crash_3d_p1/

I am for paying a good actor a reasonable wage and covering his/her expenses... but getting 7 figures for a movie or a year in a TV series is bullshit. And it's not acting ability that they are paying for. Tom Cruise cant act.

The whole industry needs to be shaken up hard.

There is some skill and technique on display, and I would be ecstatic if they added little segments about the different techniques they're using "this material takes a couple of hours to set and require different kinds of paint, but allow for more realistic mobility..."

Have you tried Film Riot?

it repeatedly mentioned "revision3's website" so i would assume http://revision3.com/ (sorry don't know how to do fancy dancy quotes with slashdots forum). and this was not a legal ddos attack (if that exists) from mediadefender. and they were sending "requests that that crippled the company came from machines controlled by MediaDefender, which is owned by publicly traded ArtistDirect Inc., a promoter of independent bands." so that's a straightup illegal ddos attack by the company funded by the mpaa. not sure how much more clear i can get

I have a feeling that idea came from the wonderful little show that rev3 produced during its infancy, The Broken. Back when Rev3 was tiny, they had The Broken which was Kevin Rose and Dan Huard doing stupid stuff with computers basically. In one episode their hacker friend Ramzi made a thermite based hard drive self destruct button on his laptop. It's a great show, so go watch it if you're in the mood. http://revision3.com/thebroken

He actually gave a talk about this on Hak5. It seemed it could be accomplished using an USRP and OpenBootTS

And from what I have heard Time Machine lead to data loss, ask some one who has tried to recover a back up from time machine.

In this ep. of coop. Quoting:

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 running time 10:33

He dropped by the week of GDC to give an extended demo of this 200-player, persistent, and uniquely beautiful game world in which players have complete control--even over the very landscape. Created with tools of his own making, including a 3D modeler and renderer, Love is an incredible example of just how far a solo project can go.

Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, admitted on the company's blog that the content owners demanded that Boxee stop displaying Hulu content.

Then I will have no remorse when traditional content producers die an albeit slow death. I'll continue to watch content I record with my DVR (and fast forward through commercials), I'll continue to download content via torrents (where there aren't any commercials), and I won't watch content with Hulu, where, ironically, I was willing to watch commercials.

Die, die, die. Long live TWiT, Revision3, and Wine Library TV. Just like music publishers gave into getting rid of DRM, every other industry will be forced to get rid of ridiculous restrictions or they will meet their end.

Revision3's Systm show had an episode that suggested some ways for destroying a hard drive yourself. They took the position that using a program like Boot'nNuke, which overwrites data 1-N times at your choosing, is sufficient to sanitize data without destroying the drive.

If you want to go the nuclear option, they demonstrated some favorites: mangling the platters in a vice, dremel or hand grinder, propane or cutting torch, melting it in thermite, etc.

A hospital I worked for once, when decommissioning old computers, would take the hard drive over to a drill press and put a couple holes through it. Nowadays I think they've bought a drive shredder.

Revision3's Systm show had an episode that suggested some ways for destroying a hard drive yourself. They took the position that using a program like Boot'nNuke, which overwrites data 1-N times at your choosing, is sufficient to sanitize data without destroying the drive.

If you want to go the nuclear option, they demonstrated some favorites: mangling the platters in a vice, dremel or hand grinder, propane or cutting torch, melting it in thermite, etc.

A hospital I worked for once, when decommissioning old computers, would take the hard drive over to a drill press and put a couple holes through it. Nowadays I think they've bought a drive shredder.

Revision3's Systm show had an episode that suggested some ways for destroying a hard drive yourself. They took the position that using a program like Boot'nNuke, which overwrites data 1-N times at your choosing, is sufficient to sanitize data without destroying the drive.

If you want to go the nuclear option, they demonstrated some favorites: mangling the platters in a vice, dremel or hand grinder, propane or cutting torch, melting it in thermite, etc.

A hospital I worked for once, when decommissioning old computers, would take the hard drive over to a drill press and put a couple holes through it. Nowadays I think they've bought a drive shredder.

One thing I did notice though was that writes were slower. The specs on the drive didn't show that to be the case but for some reason my database writes happened at half the speed during my test units. Random reads on the other hand (e.g. bootup and software loading) happen incredibly fast.

Check to make sure your system is not treating the SSD as an external drive. Tekzilla episode 242, Windows: Boost External Drive Speeds may help.

How's $50 for a 400 W bulb every 20,000 hours? It helps when you save a lot building your own 1080p projector from a $380 kit and an LCD monitor.

Our unnamed university uses Cisco Clean Access which registers every MAC address to a particular user. If the RIAA/MPAA were to subpoena that information from us, we'd not have the luxury to make that argument. We make a point to tell our students this and it has somewhat reduced the number of nasty cease and desist letters. (I think they've found other solutions like "Tor" to keep themselves anonymous).

We have a visitor wireless network that is the preferred "anonymizer" for students. The networking guys throttled this network to make P2P sharing a total pain although many students use it.

It's kind of a shame because there are plenty of legit uses for P2P sharing but the overwhelmingly negative reputation for them is for piracy.

It's funny how the RIAA/MPAA lawyers throw the book at people and basically blackmail them into a settlement but when one of their goons totally brings down a media company with a DoS, they pretend they didn't break federal laws.

On Tekzilla:

http://revision3.com/tekzilla/newtime/

Can't remember where exactly in the episode, but it's there, and there's some good footage of various pieces of tech all wet and still running.

As you say that fact, they also attacked/disabled following companies paid advertising too:
"Revision3 has attracted a wide-range of top advertisers including Sony, Netflix, Dolby, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Southern Comfort, Virgin America, Verizon and FX Networks."
http://revision3.com/about/
If there were ads of them in attacked/undelivered content, as far as I know, they can sue Media Defender too.
It seems Media Defender hit a very wrong target this time.

Can you show that podcast has propelled any of these new business models into actual profitability?

There are a few good shows on http://revision3.com/

I was just watching a show on http://revision3.com/ Many Tech TV alums have shows, I like Techzilla myself.

Meh, the time is rapidly coming where Cable/Satellite will be obsolete. Just look at http://revision3.com/ and see where we are headed. Hell, if you want shows from broadcast tv, most of the stations offer their shows online (I know ABC does). Just embed a browser that can handle a flash plugin and bingo, you can watch any show you want, directly from the networks.

I doubt that the amount of damage caused by such an incident would cause much damage.
First, there is a much lower chance of corrupted data when the drive heads are parked, as they would be as you hand the bare drive to someone.
Second, it would take several heard crashes to cause data loss, as there would have to be significant damage to the platters.
Third, professional date recovery companies can recover much of data from non-working drive, up until the point where a large majority of the physical platters are destroyed.
Hard drives are resilient units... my experience:
1. Running notebook dropped 1.5m onto concrete. Result = no data loss
2. 80gb SATA drive carried for two weeks in an external pocket of a messenger bag. Result = MD5 hash same as previous hash
3. Hard drive recovered from structure fire. Result = successful professional data recovery.
4. Running notebook with remote ignition trigger for Thermite. Result = 2204 degreeC fire, platters physically destroyed, no data recovered. (See it at The Broken

From the article:

I placed this client on a number of torrent files that I suspected were monitored by BayTSP (For my own protection I don't want to identify the torrents used for this research. I used the fact that NBC is a client of BayTSP to find trackers.

I'm not agreeing with the media companies here, but it's not as draconian as you are making it out to be.

What about thermite? (I think that's the right episode.)

Kevin Pereira was his co-host and still hosts the show.

http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/features/53663 /AOTS_hosts_Kevin_Pereira_and_Olivia_Munn.html

You can still catch Kevin Rose on the web on a podcast called Systm.
http://www.revision3.com/systm

-Eric

-Eric

Not exactly, but if you want what TechTV was go here and then poke around. You'll end up finding Revision3 and DL.TV. Don't bother about what happened. Just enjoy what has resulted. TechTV controlled by the people on the air for the people who liked to watch it.

See Systm Episode 6: Maker Faire.

Captcha = Attest
(lol)

here is a video tutorial since you will probably use asterisk!

http://revision3.com/systm/asterisk/media

Check out this episode of diggnation and you can catch a bunch of guys really going for it. very amusing, they look like absolute idiots... do I want a go? Hell yes!

Bring on that printer

*sticks on "still" by the geto boys*

Revision3 also distributes their shows on bittorrent.

Ditto, but we wouldn't have digg if Kevin Rose hadn't gotten sick of it either... Plus there's plenty of online revival of the people from TechTV. http://www.revision3.com/ http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/defau lt.aspx Down with G4 and its ilk.

Hey, I like Infected. It appeals to a certain taste of warped humor.

I agree about Leo, Patrick, et. al. Their podcasts and videocasts are much better than anything that's been on G4 in a long time.

-Eric

I, for one, ditched G4 right after they killed TechTV. IMHO, Leo and Patrick and Kevin have much better and creative shows now. (Uh, minus Martin Sargent, who's a tool).

For convenient podcast downloads for NON-iPod MP3 players, try iTunes + iTunes Agent.

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/

iTunes Agent - use any MP3 player with iTunes
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=54 9637

My Morning Playlist
Nature Podcast (science journal)
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/

NPR 5-minute News Summary
NPR Health & Science
NPR Technology
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.p hp?type=topic

Democracy NOW! (news - better than NPR in some ways)
http://democracynow.org/podcast_help.shtml#feeds

Diggnation (latest general blog news from digg.com)
http://revision3.com/diggnation

This Week in Tech (weekly tech news)
http://twit.tv/podcastinfo

Security Now! (tech/security news)
http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm

President's Weekly Radio Address (comedy)
http://weeklyradioaddress.com/

and I used to listen to Ricky Gervais (comedy), but he charges $$ now.
http://www.rickygervais.com/podcast.php

Digg's new upcoming comment system

Don't you wish Rob Malda bothered updating his eight-year-old code sometime? The lack of threaded discussion at Digg was the last obstacle for a lot of people. Now there's no reason not to move to Digg and abandon this big piece of abandonware disguised as a tech news site.

Please, repost this as much as you can to let people know what's coming, and that the wishes of many has finally been answered--the Slashdot killer is here. No more Roland! No more whiney emo journal posts from CmdrTaco on the front page! No more dupes!

And let us not forget Theora (http://www.theora.org/). VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) allows you to easily transcode into Ogg Theora and IPTV shows from revision3 (http://revision3.com/) are distributed using Ogg Theora. I have experimented with it a litte bit and I like the results over Xvid (for the same bit-rate), but I have switched to using x264 (developers.videolan.org/x264.html) but since it is also MPEG-4, it could be in trouble.

TWiT: This Week in Tech (former Tech TV Screensavers)
dl.tv (former Tech TV Screensavers)
diggnation (again, former Tech TV Screensavers)
CreativeCOW.net (Digital Media)
Shields and Brooks (Newshour Political Podcast)
NPR Technology (collected stories about tech from the previous week)
KCRW's The Treatment
Ricky Gervais (BBC's The Office, Extras)

Better yet, go here and get the H.264 torrent (or whichever encoding you prefer). That page also gives you a slew of very useful Asterisk links.